Let’s Talk, Let’s Play

Let’s Talk, Let’s Play: Helping Children Learn How to Learn from Life

The author moves with ease and confidence as she teaches us how to teach young children in poetry, song, and play. She explains both why and how archetypal games grow out of the nature of children and language.

This is a beautiful book – filled with the love that embodies a Waldorf kindergarten, filled with the magic and joy of young children. Ms. Eliot is not only a master teacher, but a great lover of life whose give it is to lead children and adults to share in that love.

Part One includes Rhythm; Uses of Poetry; Wonder; repetition; Listening and Hearing; Selections; Originality; When to Begin; Mother goose; Festivals; Spring Moon; Quick Now!; Weather; Counting; Alphabet; Temperaments; Rhythm of the Day; Travel; Family and Festivals; One Last Poem

Part Two includes: Let’s Play; Motion and Inner Motion; Balance; Visual Thinking and Imagination; Practice for You; Forces of Play; Interruptions and Completions

Games include: Ring Game; Seed Game; Spiral Games

This is a wonderful book for parents of preschoolers and anyone working with the very young child in a home care or day care setting!

About the Author

Jane Winslow Eliot graduated from Scripps College in California and the Publishing Procedures Course at Radcliffe before moving to New York City, where she worked at several major publishing houses. Winslow later moved to western Massachusetts with her husband and two children to become public relations director and humanities teacher at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School and later at the Great Barrington Waldorf High School. She has also led adult seminars and workshops for aspiring and published writers. Winslow is a member of Romance Writers of America, PEN, and the Authors Guild. Her books include The Bright Face of Danger (St. Martin’s, 1993)